The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

Chance favors those in motion.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here (pointing to himself) and you are out there.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

My motto for creat

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Travel. You need to know you're a citizen of the world.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.